Daily Archives: October 26, 2013

(Friday, October 26, 1973, 9:00 p.m. EDT; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. President Richard Nixon, under siege by recent events of the Watergate scandal and the just-ended Yom Kippur War, declared tonight during a news conference that he doesn’t let “frantic, hysterical reporting” by the news media get under his skin because “one can only be angry about those he respects.”

“I have never seen such outrageous, vicious distorted reporting in 27 years of public life, “Nixon said.

Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 2' (Oct. 26, 1963, at 45:26)

(Saturday, October 26, 1963; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem reviewed 8,000 troops and $20 million worth of arms contributed by the U.S. for the war against Communist guerrillas today in Saigon on Vietnam’s national day, knowing that a coup against him was being planned.